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Clyde 2 St Mirren 2: Ross rescues leaders

EXPECT another revision of the Premierleague’s already discredited rulebook at their meeting on Tuesday, which is where the outstanding issues of the season will be dealt with rather than on the pitch. Meanwhile, clubs are quietly dying in striving to meet the unrealistic criteria imposed on them.

Clyde, the First Division leaders, Inverness and Ross County will apply for extensions to the March 31 deadline to meet the 10,000 all-seater requirement, but Partick Thistle and St Mirren, who were not allowed such latitude, will counter with threats of legal action if their request is granted. Other items on the agenda are Dundee’s application to groundshare with Dundee United at Tannadice and Hearts’ attempt to flit from Gorgie to Murrayfield, but the rules, as ever, may prove a little more malleable for the established Premierleague sides than they are for clubs aspiring to reach it.